On the publication of his new book, My Job Isn’t Working!, careers coach Michael Brown shares his top tips on how to achieve job satisfaction. Over the last 20 years ...
With their debut album Character Building set for release on October 12, 2018 via Infinite Jest Records, we caught up with Oh800 to try and find out a little bit ...
Now You See Her is the story that evolves when four-year-old Alice disappears suddenly at a busy school fete. Alice is in the care of her mother’s best friend, Charlotte, ...
So, you’re older now. What’s up with body image? A few more wrinkles, body parts going south? I overheard a man tell his wife to cover up her cleavage. He ...
Think The Hunger Games. Think Dune, or The Power, or Star Wars. Even The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. (Yes, really: its entire plot is the struggle to end ...
The island can be a paradise, but it can also be a place of danger and isolation. It can be a place where normal codes of behaviour become warped, where ...
There’s nothing quite like climbing several thousand feet in a Spitfire, with the earth whizzing below, and the infinite sky ahead. These days if you fancy a ride on a ...
My desk faces the garden, and occasionally the squirrels that live nearby will try and distract me (they’ve even played with my son’s football). I’m too easily distracted though, so ...
I quit being a human rights barrister to be a writer. Financially that was a foolish decision, but I was driven to start writing a novel after working on an ...
It was something which my nan said, shortly before she died a couple of years ago, which made me think about the secrets people take to their graves. Particularly women, ...
Pick a fear and conquer it! We all have something that scares us but conquring a fear is the best feeling! Everyone has something that scares them but the feeling ...
My older sister and I were born in Leicester, England and my family lived in Birmingham for two and a half years, where both my younger brothers were born. I ...
It’s official, crime fiction is the most popular genre in the UK, outselling every other category of fiction in 2017 according to Nielsen Bookscan data. We cannot, it seems, get ...
At the beginning of 2015, three London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join Islamic State. The oldest was only sixteen, and all three were described in the hundreds of newspaper ...
After a long search to find the young actress who would play a crucial role in Wonderstruck Todd Haynes says that when he first saw Millicent Simmonds’ audition tape he ...
After more years than I care to remember working shifts as a front line police officer, since retirement, my days now have a relatively leisurely start; as long as Bailey, ...
The first rule in managing a long-distance friendship? Do not communicate before the person in the earlier time zone has been properly caffeinated! That is one of the many lessons ...
Steven Soderbergh continues to be at the forefront of visual storytelling, nearly three decades since winning the Palme d’Or with his debut film sex, lies, and videotape (1989). From feature ...
So far, I’ve written each of my novels in a different location of the house. Saving Sophie moved around quite a lot but was mainly penned either at the breakfast ...
Already the lead singer of indie-electro quarter Nausica, singer-songwriter KOSCHKA is now stepping out on her own to release some incredible solo material. With her debut The Flood already making ...
Like my central character, Elvira, I love animals. Dogs, guinea-pigs, orang-utans, wolves and tigers all feature in the book. I’m lucky enough to live in a beautiful part of the ...
